Trump Still Thinks the Central Park Jogger Suspects Are Guilty

2016/10/08

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump — who almost three decades ago made a veiled call for the execution of the now-exonerated suspects in the Central Park jogger case — waded back into the fray of the 27-year-old crime, reiterating his suggestion the men were “guilty” and calling a settlement reached with the city “outrageous” ...

“They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said of the so-called “Central Park Five” in a statement to CNN.

“The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same” ...

In 2002, the suspects were exonerated after an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the New York Times said. Another man confessed to the crime and according to the Times, his DNA conclusively linked him to the victim ...

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